Five members of the parliament (Members), including KC Venugopal Congress Party, wrote on Tuesday spokesman Lok Sabha Om Birla on the incident of Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi, which traveled to Chennai and demanded steps to alleged “violations of privileges” Air India.
Venugopal, colleagues for Suresh, Adoor Prakash and Robert Bruce, along with KPI (m) to Radhakrishnan, also wrote the Minister of Civil Aviation Rammohan Naid and demanded an immediate investigation of the incident.
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In their letter Birla, five deputies said they wanted to draw attention to a matter that includes “serious privileges” from Air India, which arises from events on AI 2455 (Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi) on August 10.
“On the date we traveled with hundreds of other passengers. Years scheduled for 19:15, eventually left around 20:30, quoting late arrival of the incoming aircraft. From the beginning the journey was marked by extended turbulence.
Previously, Venugopal called on an incident concerning an Air India AI2455 flight, which traveled from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi, but was diverted to Chennai due to a suspicious technical problem.
“There should be an investigation into the problem. Yesterday an unfortunate incident.
Critical technical error
In the middle of the flight, the pilot announced a critical technical mistake – the failure of the weather radar – and said that the aircraft would be diverted to Chennai, they said.
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“This aroused immediate concern, because other airports such as Bengaluru and Coimbatore were closer to our location at the time. The decision to advance to the airport, while the allegedly” flying blind “remains unexplained,” he wrote.
After reaching the airspace in Chennai, the plane did not land, but continued in the circle for more than an hour and the reason for this prolonged pattern of possession was not clarified, they said.
“Finally, during the first landing attempt, the aircraft had to perform sudden maneuvering due to dangerously low superstructure, supposedly because of” something “, perhaps another airplane aircraft, according to the pilot announcement. Only in the second attempt we landed safely.
“Immediately after the incident, we put this matter in the public sphere through our social media accounts and emphasized serious security and procedure to witness first -hand. Instead of dealing with these legitimate concerns, Air India issued public statements that showed our accounts as false and misleading. They fulfill their liability for public security, ”they said,” they said they were responsible for public security, ”they said that it was listed for the purpose of balance of public security matters,” they said.
“This attempt to challenge our credibility and publicly distort our statement is a direct violation of the privilege because it seeks to intimidate and discourage members from the fulfillment of their constitutional obligation to increase matters affecting the security and well -being of citizens,” they said.
MEPs said that flight safety is a matter of deep public concern as a result of a recent tragic air accident in Ahmedabad, and several of them reported technical defects in the air across the country. They added that instead of demonstrating transparency and responsibility, Air India resorted to rejection.
“Therefore, we ask that this matter be taken as a violation of the privilege against Air India and that the necessary measures to protect the rights of parliament members and ensure that public security concerns are dealt with with the severity and transparency,” Birla said.
In their letter, the Minister of Civil Aviation said MEPs that the time when the nation was still rushing from a recent tragic air accident in Ahmedabad and more reported technical incidents in the air in recent months is such opacity of Air India.
“Therefore, we are asking your ministry to order a comprehensive and time -bound investigation of this incident, cover both technical and procedural aspects, and ensured that the findings would be published in full,” they said.
“We are also asking for a clear liability to be fixed, the operating protocols for emergency diversions and the safety of the runway are provided true and timely communication in such situations,” the deputies said.
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Air India said on Monday that the crew of Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi flight, which was diverted to Chennai on Sunday, followed by protocols. The first landing attempt had to be interrupted because of the suspicion that foreign Debrison on the track in the middle of security fears raised by some deputies who were on board the plane.
This attempt to challenge our credibility and publicly distort our statement is a direct violation of the privilege.
Aviation Watchdog DGCA said the flight was diverted to Chennai due to suspicion of a non -functional non -functional aircraft radar. The plane landed safely, in the middle of some deputies who were on board security fears.
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